All Entries in the "Chef’s Life" Category
Seriously South Australian
From our BISTRO interview with Dennis Leslie, the Executive Chef of the Adelaide Hilton Hotel, it’s easy to see that his heart is in the right place and there are always new challenges on the road to mastering one’s craft. To the naked ear, the word ‘McDonald’s’ sounds incongruent with the word ‘cheffing’, but to [...]
Tetsuya to open new restaurant offshore
Top Sydney chef Tetsuya Wakuda is opening a second eatery – in Singapore. The Japanese-born food guru will launch a modern French-Japanese restaurant (similar to Tetsuya’s in Sydney) in Singapore luxury hotel resort and casino Marina Bay Sands by July’s end – his first establishment outside of Oz. The eatery, named Waku Ghin after the [...]
The Australian-trained butler is in strong demand all over the world
The Australian-trained butler is in strong demand all over the world, and butlering is a great career move for people-oriented chefs. The word butler first appears in the early Middle Ages and is derived from the French word for “bottle bearer.” Originally the word meant a person in charge of the wine cellar and who [...]
Attention! Present… food!
Hard-working mother-of-two Morgan Ross helps feed an army during her workaday life but when she goes home, it’s a rarity if she even picks up a pot or pan in the kitchen. Morgan, or to use her correct title – Sergeant Ross – has been the chef in the Australian Army Catering Corps for almost [...]
Australian chef working in Moscow
Meet Jonathon Curtis, a young Australian chef working in Moscow. BISTRO caught up with Jonathon for a cup of coffee. Jonathan tell us little bit about yourself… I’ve been passionate about food from a young age and after attending school in France, I was sure food was what I wanted to do. I started working [...]
Clear vision for success
What makes a restaurant successful? There are as many different answers to this question as there are successful restaurants.
Royal Mail Hotel – molecular gastronomy with an Australian accent
Meet Dan Hunter, Executive Chef of the Royal Mail Hotel’s restaurant and bistro. A hotel with a name reflecting the past, and a restaurant whose chef combines old-fashioned values with the latest gastronomic trends, the Royal Mail has taken out the 2009 AHA Award for Best Restaurant, (Country). Nestling in the foothills of the Southern [...]
Watershed moment – Chef of the Year Daniel Fountain
Last year, Fountain was named the AHA National Chef of the Year for his former role as head chef at Darling Harbour’s Watershed Hotel (now, he manages no less than seven venues for J&J O’Brien).
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